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Mother Buttoning a Child's Dress
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Schussele, a native of Alsace, eastern France, completed his training in Paris under Adolphe Yvon (see Yvon's "Portrait of Napoleon III" (Walters 37.95)). An accomplished technician, Schussele immigrated to America in 1848 and settled in Philadelphia, where he pursued a successful career as a history painter and illustrator.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
William T. Walters, Baltimore; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
Exhibitions
| 1994-1995 | Private Lives: Nineteenth Century American Genre Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 5 5/8 x W: 8 5/16 in. (14.3 x 21.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1575